Pregnant
women were among the thousands of unemployed Nigerians in Ogun on Thursday that
struggled to get the registration form for the recruitment into the Peace
Corps
of Nigeria.
Although,
the bill to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps is awaiting the Presidential
assent, Premium Times reports that some pregnant women begged the officials of
the corps to consider them for the job due to the unemployment situation in the
country.
It was
gathered that the women were among thousands of applicants who attended the
exercise held in Asero Housing Estate of Abeokuta, the state capital.
It was
further learnt that after the screening, which included, medical test, fitness,
mental alertness, educational standard, among others, the pregnant women begged
the PCN officials for the job after they were screened out on medical ground.
The
Commandant of the Corps, Patriot Olalekan Yusuff, while addressing the
applicants, admonished those who were screened out based on health reasons and
pregnancy not to see the corps as being discriminatory but to commend it for
being safety conscious.
He
said: “We are peace loving body and we
shall continue to promote and maintain peace.
“For those
of you that we screened out based on health conditions and pregnancy, I want
you to understand that we value your life more than anything else and we cannot
allow you to partake in the training,’’
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